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Kay
If limited to only one avenue in which to encourage students to read, I would go
for the librarian reading the books on the shelves. The excitement when
recommending a book that you yourself have enjoyed will be communicated to the
student. When s/he comes back and talks to you about parts of the book a true
dialog will exist. I think reluctant readers find it difficult to agree that they
should read a book that we recommend or encourage, when we ourselves have not done
so.
My two cents worth.
Dixie L. Andersen, Librarian
Navarro High School and Pickett Center
San Antonio, ISD
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Topics in this special issue:
1. TAR: ELEM: K 5 Senses Lessons
2. HIT: showing off what you do in the library for parents
3. TAR: Best thing you do to encourage students to read
4. TAR: Best thing you do to encourage teachers to encourage students
5. Richie's Picks: TSUNAMI!
6. Pre-k sitting still poems
7. Overhead Projectors
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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:46:01 -0400
From: "Norby, Blake Benton" <BBN0105@ECU.EDU>
Subject: TAR: ELEM: K 5 Senses Lessons
I'm joining up with the technology teacher to do a series of lessons on the=
5 senses and was hoping the genius of this group could add to our ideas. =
We're planning on doing at least 1 lesson with each sense. I also have acc=
ess to a Smartboard, if this influences any ideas. Any and all suggestions=
are appreciated.
Thanks so much!
Blake Norby
Combs Elementary
Raleigh, NC
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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:42:51 -0500
From: "cesjds tds.net" <cesjds@TDS.NET>
Subject: HIT: showing off what you do in the library for parents
Thanks so much for your great ideas! I'll probably either go with the author
commercial or readers theater. The scavenger hunt would be great for when we
do the same thing with 2nd and 3rd grade. That's in February and I won't
have the bookfair taking up all my space!
Hit results are below.
Thanks again!
Carol Smallwood
Elzie D. Patton Elementary
Mt. Juliet, TN
smallwoodc@wcschools.com
Hello!
I have done a few things for this in the past. Since you are limited on
computers, you are probably best to go the paper route.
One I like is a picture of the child, and a paragraph written by them about
their favorite book. You could also include a photo of the book cover. I
have done this using 2 pieces of cardboard and attached a spiral spine to
make it like a book, but you could probably just do a 11X17 sheet of
construction paper as an easier alternative.
Other things I've done are book talk podcasts that they create (you could do
it in groups of 2-3). They could either recreate a scene from the book or
one could pretend to interview the author.
Good luck and post a hit - I'd be interested in hearing what others suggest
as well!
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Why not have a scavenger hunt that would show off their skills. You could
have them pre printed and set up on clipboards w/ pencils. They pick up a
hunt w/ their parents as they enter the library. Hunts could have quests
like: 1. What is the call number for The Lion, witch and the wardrobe by CS
Lewis? 2. What magazines do we have in the library that give information
about animals? 3. What section of the library has information about China?
4. Write the title of a biography book in our library about John F. Kennedy.
4. Using the Destiny software find out how many books about Rosa Parks are
in our library. 5. Save a periodical article on Dogs into your folder using
EBSCO host. ETC... Obviously change the "hunt" to meet your library's
collection. The cool thing about this type of activity is 1. that it is
interactive. 2. shows off the resources your library has to offer 3. rotates
people through the library so no back up on the 5 computers. Kids have done
this at my school and the parents loved it! Let me know if it works for you.
:)
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How about have them do a book talk on a book they liked
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A Reader's Theater performance might be fun (parent's love to see their kids
perform) or any kind of video looping via a computer/LCD or SmartBoard
set-up which showcases the library connection to curricula would be
beneficial.
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A few years ago I collaborated with our 4th grade teachers to do a living
history museum for the students. Each child researched a famous North
Carolinian and "became" that person for the museum. You could do something
similar for your state or for heroes or famous Americans or whatever! Our
students did a great job with their costumes and props. They had to stand
completely still until viewers "pressed the button" (dropped a stone in a
cup) to make them come alive. They spoke a minute or two about themselves,
their exploits, and what made them famous.
If you're doing research skills in the fall I think that could work!
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Book Talks, to promote different books.
Reader's theater, so show off their reading talents
author displays
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Have a "read-in" where the kids find books on the shelves and then have a
corner to sit and read, if your shelves are available during the book fair.
Otherwise, perhaps some reciprocal reading or readers' theater. Or, have
the students make an advertising poster for their favorite book. They can
do that on large construction paper or posterboard.
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What about some sort of trivia contest or scavenger hunt where kids and
parents could work in teams to locate the answers to questions in the
library? Parents might like that-- especially if they could participate
instead of just watching another performance of sorts!
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What about having them do booktalks of books they like?
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Last year fifth graders made a "commercial" for an author. In groups of four
or five they selected an author from a list, spent one week planning, one
week photographing book covers and pictures of people "reading" that author,
then one week editing the video after all the photos had been uploaded to
Animoto. They were very proud of their results. We watched them in class,
but you could have them showing on your computers when the parents came.
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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:12:17 -0500
From: Kay Goss <goss.kay@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: TAR: Best thing you do to encourage students to read
Dear Great and Wise Ones:
I am writing to ask you to share your best ideas.
If you had to choose one, what is the one thing you do in your library,
visual, auditory, instructional, etc. that you think motivates your
students--especially reluctant readers--to read, to continue reading, to
enjoy reading.
It seems of late that we here have adopted a Hitler mentality towards
reading---you have to read, you have to test, you have to do a
book response, you have to read something hard, something boring, something
written a long time ago, etc.
Thank you so much.
--
Kay Goss
Mansfield Secondary Library
316 West Ohio Ave.
Mansfield, Mo. 65704
417-924-3236 Ext. 311
goss.kay@gmail.com
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel,
must be intolerably stupid."
Jane Austen
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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:19:12 -0500
From: Kay Goss <goss.kay@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: TAR: Best thing you do to encourage teachers to encourage students
Dear Great and Wise Ones:
I come to you again for good ideas.
What is the one best thing you do that motivates your *teachers* to
encourage reading.
Do you create cooperative lessons, provide book lists, offer browsing carts,
present workshops?
Many of our students hate reading because they cannot read a book
that somehow relate to their lives, that is not too long or hard to read,
that was written recently, that is not just a boring assignment.
Thanks for sharing.
--
Kay Goss
Mansfield Secondary Library
316 West Ohio Ave.
Mansfield, Mo. 65704
417-924-3236 Ext. 311
goss.kay@gmail.com
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel,
must be intolerably stupid."
Jane Austen
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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:25:36 EDT
From: Richie Partington <BudNotBuddy@AOL.COM>
Subject: Richie's Picks: TSUNAMI!
Richie's Picks: TSUNAMI! by Kimiko Kajikawa and Ed Young, ill. Philomel,
February 2009, 32p., ISBN: 978-0-399-25006-4
"And when my soul comes to rescue me
I rest my resistance, fall piece by piece into peace
And slip like the water back into the sea"
-- Edie Brickell, "This Eye"
Those first moments of approaching the ocean after not having been
swimming in it for a couple of years had me feeling a momentary tinge of shyness
toward it. There is that sense of enormity and foreverness and hidden
secrets. But then it reached out and splashed my ankles and knees and --
proceeding forward -- I was suddenly and thoroughly immersed in it, swimming
beyond the breakers, and it was my old friend, holding me aloft with its
buoyant, salty density. All of those feelings and memories embedded so deeply
in me came pouring out: of being a little kid all scratchy with sand in the
backseat of an ancient station wagon heading home with New York Top Forty
on the radio, still feeling, for hours to come and into that night's sleep,
the never-ending sway and tug of the sea bouncing me around and around
despite its having -- for the moment -- receded out of sight and scent to be
replaced by the moist and verdant midsummer's evening of fireflies and
hide-and-seek and a warm shower and soft pajamas.
A week ago I was one with the ocean, thousands of miles from where I sit
this morning. I left my beloved soulmate back there, and wish in all of my
being that I was there right now.
I consider it one of the most fortunate circumstances of birth that I was
born near the sea and, throughout childhood, accumulated so many layers of
sweet memories of being in it, memories that cause me to find myself back
at the shores of eastern Long Island again and again just as surely as if I
were a bird born with that instinctual knowledge of where one is forever
compelled to return to.
Long before reading Pearl Buck's THE BIG WAVE for a junior high English
class, I'd had powerful, reoccurring dreams of the sea pulling way out,
revealing the naked ocean floor, and then crashing furiously back in to shore.
Reading THE BIG WAVE merely accentuated those dreams.
To look at the stunning cover of TSUNAMI!, the powerful image of a
debris-bespeckled gigantic wave about to crash down, is to understand why this
book so thoroughly and unceasingly calls to me after having spent recent days
and all those long-ago days in and along the ocean. I've now been sitting
here staring at Ed Young's amazing cover art for a ridiculous number of
minutes.
TSUNAMI! is adapted from a 1897 story "A Living God" by Lafcadio Hearn.
It is the tale of Ojiisan (meaning grandfather), a wise old rice farmer who
lived on a mountainside near the sea, a man who lives simply despite being
the oldest and wealthiest person in his village. Ojiisan has a premonition
that causes him to pass up a village celebration and, sure enough, an
earthquake occurs. Then the sea recedes and the villagers run in wonderment to
the beach and even beyond it to watch the sea. Knowing they are in
immanent danger, but being too far away to call them back, Ojiisan brings all of
the villagers running up the hill by setting fire to his rice crop,
purposely and selflessly destroying his life's fortune for the sake of saving his
neighbors.
"Through the twilight, a dark shadow grew larger and larger, racing toward
the coast. The long darkness was the returning se, as high as a cliff and
as wide as the sky, heading for the village with lightning speed."
Caldecott Medalist Ed Young is at his best here; his work is a truly
inspired artistic achievement rendered through utilizing combinations of
gouache, pastel, and collage to vividly bring the ocean, the village, and the fire
all to life.
TSUNAMI! is powerful and notable in its lesson of what one person can do
to change the world and in its images which so thoroughly and successfully
capture the elemental forces of our world.
Richie Partington, MLIS
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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:41:37 -0700
From: Mari Howells <marih31@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Pre-k sitting still poems
In the past year, I would say the following between books:
I wiggle my fingers
I wiggle my toes
I wiggle my shoulders
I wiggle my nose
No more wiggles are left in me, so I'll sit as quiet as I can be
I got it from LM-NET, and it's been great.
I thought I'd change up this year, and I remember I had a pack of songs and
"between-book" poems that I had borrowed from the listserv. Now I can't find them.
There was one with "grandpa's suspenders" that I thought I could use, but I seem to
have lost it. Does anyone have that one, or any other clever things to do in
between books? I'll post a hit.
Thanks
Mari Howells
Librarian
Dr. Gertrude A. Barber National Institute
Erie, PA
marih31@yahoo.com
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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:37:35 -0500
From: Gail Brewster <gbrewste@MOLINESCHOOLS.ORG>
Subject: Re: Overhead Projectors
That's what we are doing too. I am becoming more selective with the OHs =
we keep and clearing out the older ones. We are also encouraging our tea=
chers to keep one in their rooms simply because some things are not read=
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the Internet or our network is down.
Gail Brewster
Media Specialist
Moline High School
Moline, IL 61265
gbrewste@molineschools.org
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From: Bonnie Martiny [mailto:bmartiny@BELLSOUTH.NET]
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Subject: Re: Overhead Projectors
Storing them, some teachers keep them in their rooms and use both.
Bonnie Martiny
Media Specialist
St Charles Elem
Thibodaux LA
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